Treatment for Food Allergies In Clinical Trials

[Broomstick]

Until you or someone you love has to deal with a food allergy - a real one, not merely a dislike - it's hard to understand what it's like. Fortunately, I've never been as allergic as some of the kids in this article, but that doesn't mean mine aren't a problem and that they aren't serious (I've landed in the ER twice in my life because of food reactions).

From the New York Times Magazine we have an article on clinical trials to not only desensitize children to one allergen but to several simultaneously. It's 10 pages long so I'm not going to quote it here. I'm hoping that within my lifetime we get a standard food allergy treatment and I can leave mine in the dust. Having gone through the environmental desensitization I have some idea of the limitations of this sort of thing, and the inconvenience, but I'd willingly endure a few years of this for a lifetime free of fearing food.

[Guardsman Bass]

I have an aunt who has multiple food allergies, so I sympathize. If this works out, I hope she can get it.

[Spoonist]

that os so cool go science